RE: [Quranic Reflection] : "Joseph; he came to you before with the clear proofs".
August 25, 2023 at 4:15 pm
(August 25, 2023 at 3:15 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(August 25, 2023 at 2:04 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/satan
There is a reason most of the angels have names which end in - "el", just as Isra-el ends in "el", "walks with El"
Rapha-el, Uri-el., Micha-el. They are the messengers of "El", the chief god of the Babylonians.
In Deuteronomy the "most high god" "portions out" the nations to his sons. The inheritance of Yahweh, (NOT the "most high" god), is given Israel, for his share of the nations.
Elaine Pagels PhD (Princeton) is the recognized expert on the subject of the origins of angels and devils. "See The Origins of Satan".
There are YouTube" lectures on the subject.
I just looked that up. Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and the verses after clearly state that Yahweh (the Lord) was the god of Israel only, and was not the Most High.
I'm sure that's a error in the text. Somehow the scribes overlooked that, or they would have changed it. It's a big boo-boo.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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